Due to the increasing complexity of construction projects, the construction industry is acknowledged as having inherent risks with high levels of change and uncertainty. Therefore, resilient safety culture has been proposed to address the emerging and unforeseen safety risks being encountered to achieve a consistently high safety performance. This study aims to examine the interactive effects of resilient safety culture and project complexity on safety performance of construction projects. Data were collected using questionnaires from 78 completed building projects in Vietnam. The structural equation modeling technique was used to analyze the collected data. The results support that (1) technical and environmental project complexities have negative impacts on safety performance and (2) the negative impact of project complexity on safety performance becomes less significant when a higher level of resilient safety culture exists, but this impact might be not significant for a high resilient safety culture level. The findings of this study may contribute to the safety management knowledge by providing the empirical evidence to clarify the adverse impacts of project complexity on safety performance and the moderating role played by resilient safety culture in the construction environment. Suggestions are also provided for construction organizations to achieve sustained improvement in safety performance regardless of the changing complexity levels of construction projects.

Resilient safety culture is an organization’s psychological, behavioral, and contextual capabilities to anticipate, monitor, respond, and learn in order to manage safety risks and create an ultrasafe organization. This study aims to identify the drivers of resilient safety culture in the construction environment. Data were collected using questionnaires from 78 completed building projects in Vietnam. The structural equation modeling technique was used to analyze the collected data. The results indicate that construction organizations can develop a resilient safety culture by systematically responding to regular threats, irregular threats, and unexampled events in the construction environment. Hazard prevention practice has a positive impact on contextual and behavioral resilience, error management practice has a positive impact on psychological resilience, and mindful organizing practice has a positive impact on contextual resilience. The findings of this study may advance the theories of resilient safety culture by providing insights into the mechanisms by which resilient safety culture can be created in a construction organization. It offers a framework that may guide the design of safety interventions in order to achieve a sustained improvement of safety performance of construction projects.

A positive safety culture is crucial for improving the safety performance in construction workplaces. Although there are substantial efforts to achieve a high level of safety culture, the traditional approaches may not be sufficient to ensure the sustained improvement of the safety performance due to the complex nature of construction projects. This technical note aims to discuss the concept of resilient safety culture and its application in the construction environment. A conceptual model for a resilient safety culture was developed on the basis of the safety culture theory, the resilience engineering theory, the latent failure model, the human error theory, the high reliability theory, and the normal accident theory. The conceptual model proposes a measurement method for the resilient safety culture of construction projects and explains how a resilient safety culture can be created in a construction organization. This paper also proposes hypotheses regarding the effect of the project complexity and resilient safety culture on the safety performance of construction projects, on the basis of the normal accident theory. The model may serve as the theoretical basis for establishing an ultrasafe construction organization that is expected to achieve a consistently high safety performance regardless of the changing complexity levels and conditions of its construction projects.

Resilient safety culture is characterized by continuous improvements to safety performance and the capacity to have foresight, recognizing and anticipating the changing shape of safety risks in complex sociotechnical systems. This study aims to conceptualize resilient safety culture in the construction environment by integrating resilience engineering principles into the concept of safety culture. To fulfill this research aim, a correlational research design was used. Data were collected using questionnaire surveys targeting construction project managers involved in the delivery of 78 recently completed building projects in Vietnam. The structural equation modeling (SEM) technique with partial least-squares estimation (PLS) was used to analyze the data. The results confirmed 3 dimensions (i.e., psychological resilience, behavioral resilience, and contextual resilience) with 24 measurable scale items to assess safety culture with respect to resilience. The study also revealed that psychological resilience has a weaker impact on accident prevention under higher contextual resilience and behavioral resilience levels. Theoretically, this study provides the theoretical development and empirical evidence to clarify the concept of resilient safety culture in terms of definition, purpose, and value in the context of construction projects. In practical terms, the study suggests that project hazards, unexpected events, and the risk tolerance of construction workers should be addressed to achieve consistently high safety performance. It also offers construction organizations a framework of safety practices to assess their capabilities in managing on-site safety risks.

Despite the risk of occupational hearing loss, many noise-exposed construction workers are unwilling to wear hearing protection devices (HPDs) due to their concern about the degraded audibility of environmental sounds. Augmented hearing protection technology that uses advanced artificial intelligenc–based signal processing to amplify safety-critical sounds offers great potential to address the issue. To facilitate the acceptance of this new technology, it is critical to understand the user’s intention of use of augmented HPDs. The current state-of-the-art, however, offers little understanding about the user’s intention of use of such new technology. This paper fills the gap by exploring factors that determine the user’s intention of use of augmented HPDs in the construction environment. Data were collected using questionnaires from 298 practitioners in the US, China, and Japan. The structural equation modeling (SEM) method was adopted for analyzing the collected data. The results denote that the intention of use of augmented hearing protection technology is determined by the user’s perceived usefulness of which the perceived ease of use, hearing health, and safety consciousness, trust on autonomy are among the most critical factors. The findings of this study enrich understandings of the theories of technology adoption in construction. It presents a further step towards critical design and implementation considerations for the success of augmented hearing protection technology in the future.

This paper aims to conduct a systematic review of the research trend on retirement village development by exploring the emerging key themes. Bibliometric data was retrieved from Scopus using some selected keywords. The bibliometric data was analyzed using the VOS viewer. The review results showed that publications on retirement village development increased steadily from 1968 to 2013. Also, the most productive countries of retirement village literature are Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Lastly, the literature on retirement village revolves around five broad areas. The outputs inform future researchers of the emerging knowledge areas.